- List of New Trier High School alumni
New Trier High School is a public four-yearhigh school located inWinnetka, Illinois , a northern suburb ofChicago, Illinois . A number of former New Trier students have become notable in their own right.Notable
alumn i of New Trier High School (including the former New Trier East and New Trier West high schools) include:Actors
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Ann-Margret (1959), actress
*Adam Baldwin (1980), actor ("Chuck")
*Ralph Bellamy (1922), actor
*Carlos Bernard (1980), actor (Tony Almeida in "24")
*Liz Callaway (1978),musical theatre actress and singer ("Anastasia")
*William Christopher , actor ("M*A*S*H")
*Bruce Dern , actor
*Christine Ebersole (1971), Tony Award-Winning actress and singer
*Charlton Heston (1941), Academy Award-Winning actor, former president of theNational Rifle Association
*Rock Hudson (1944), actor
*Virginia Madsen (1979), actress, starred in 2004's "Sideways "
*Lauren Marcus (2003), actress, "The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks"
*Penelope Milford (1966), actress, Academy Award Nominee 1978 "Coming Home "
*Hugh O'Brian (1941), actor
* Liesel Pritzker (aka Liesel Matthews) (2002), child actress, sued family for one billion dollars
*Betsy Randle , actress
*Charlotte Ross , actress ("NYPD Blue ", "Days of Our Lives ")
*Hal Sparks (1988), actor/comedian
*Lili Taylor (1985), actress
*Jim True-Frost (aka Jim True) (1984), actor (currently acting in a recurring role inHBO 's "The Wire")
*Rainn Wilson (1984), actor,Dwight Schrute in NBC's "The Office"Business executives
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Douglas Conant , President and CEO ofCampbell Soup Company , 2001-present [ [http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kwo/sum01/facultynews/conant.htm Recipe for success: Campbell Soup CEO Doug Conant '76 talks strategy] ]
*Christie Hefner (1970), CEO ofPlayboy Enterprises
*Mark Hogan (1969), President ofMagna International , 2004-2007; formerly an executive at GM
*James McNerney (1967), CEO ofBoeing
*Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. , chairman emeritus ofACNielsen
*Alex Zoghlin (dropped out in 1988),software entrepreneur, co-foundedOrbitz , where he worked from 2000-2003
*Raul Valdes-Perez (1974), co-founder and CEO ofVivisimo , an enterprise search software companyMusicians
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Dave Samuels (1966), jazz vibraphonist ofSpyro Gyra , The Caribbean Jazz Project
*Jennifer Armstrong (1975), musician / storyteller
*Mike Bloomfield ,rock music andblues guitarist
* Scott Bennett (1983), musician currently in theBrian Wilson band
* Gary Novak (1987), drummer, played withChick Corea ,Alanis Morissette , and others.
*Ann Hampton Callaway (1976), singer and songwriter
*David Goldblatt (1977), jazz pianist, member of Mark Isham's studio band. Played on soundtrack for the Jodie Foster movie, "Little Man Tate".
*Jeff Harnar (1977), New York-based cabaret singer
*Al Jourgensen , musician
*Liz Phair (1985), singer
*Joe Trohman (2002), guitarist forFall Out Boy
*Pete Wentz (attended), bassist forFall Out Boy
* Matt Walker, rock musician and former drummer ofThe Smashing Pumpkins Politicians and government officials
*Jean (Stovall) Anderson (1941), first
African-American female, Office of theState's Attorney forBaltimore City
*Judy Biggert (1955), Republican member of the House of Representatives
* Karna Small Bodman (1955),Ronald Reagan 's deputy press secretary, former Senior Director of theNational Security Council
*Rahm Emanuel (1977), congressman, former senior adviser to PresidentBill Clinton
*Mark Kirk (1977), U.S. congressman
* Thomas Miller (1966), formerU.S. Ambassador to Greece and Bosnia
*Charles Percy (1937), U.S. Senator (1967-1985)
*Donald Rumsfeld (1950), former U.S. Secretary of Defense, (1975-1977, 2001-2006)ports figures
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Michael Alter , co-founder and co-owner of theChicago Sky
*Ben Braun (1971), men's basketball coach (Rice University (2008-), University of California, Berkeley (1996-2008))
*Pete Burnside (1948),Major League Baseball pitcher (1955-1963, New York-San Francisco Giants, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, Baltimore Orioles) [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/burnspe01.shtml Pete Burnside Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com] ]
*Rick Hahn (1989), Vice President/Assistant General Manager of theChicago White Sox [ [http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/team/exe_bios/hahn_rick.html Chicago White Sox: Front Office] ]
*Mike Huff (1981), Major League Baseball player (1989-1996)
*Clay Matthews (1974), pro football player (Cleveland Browns andAtlanta Falcons , 1978-1993), played inPro Bowl four times
* Bruce Matthews (attended), pro football player (Houston Oilers-Tennessee Oilers-Tennessee Titans , 1983-2000), elected toPro Football Hall of Fame
*Ross Baumgarten (1973), major league baseball player (Chicago White Sox 1978-1981,Pittsburgh Pirates 1982)
*Mike Pyle (1957), pro football player (Chicago Bears 1961-1969, played in the 1963Pro Bowl )
*John Castino (1973), Major League Baseball player. (Minnesota Twins) 1979 AL Rookie of The Year
*Larry Sweeney , professional wrestler, better known by his stage name, "Sweet 'n' Sour" Larry Sweeneycientists
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Todd Golub (1981) cancer researcher, director of the Cancer program at theBroad Institute
*Mary-Claire King (1963), geneticist
*Michael Peskin (1969), physicist
*Martin Rocek (1971) Physicist,State University of New York at Stony Brook
*Dennis J. Selkoe (1961), Alzheimer's Disease researcher at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine;Potamkin Prize recipient, 1989 [http://www.newtrier.k12.il.us/information/pub/MayBdRep.pdf]
*Rafael Sorkin (valedictorian 1963 ), physicist
*Jack Steinberger (1938),Nobel Prize winning physicist (who donated the medal to the science department) [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/steinberger-autobio.html Jack Steinberger bio @nobelprize.org] ]Writers and journalists
* Richard Cohen, contributing writer at "
The New Yorker ", "Vanity Fair", "Harper's", "GQ", "Rolling Stone ", "Details", and other magazines
*Ann Compton (1965),ABC News reporter
*Walter Jacobson (1955), award-winning television news personality
*Ian Punnett (1978), radio personality and writer
*Sarah Ruhl (1992), playwright
*John Stossel (1965),ABC News reporter
*Penelope Trunk (Adrienne Roston) (1985), author, blogger andBoston Globe reporter
*Scott Turow (1966), author and lawyer
*Brian Hewitt (1968), Golf Channel commentator
*Geoffrey A. Landis (1973), science fiction author
*Julia Allison (2000), newspaper columnist and regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, commentator onFox News Channel Newsmakers
* David Biro (attended until his arrest in 1990), murderer of Richard and Nancy Langert
*Laurie Dann (1976), perpetrator of aschool shooting in Winnetka
* Jack Ryan, former candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois
*Benjamin Nathaniel Smith , white supremacist spree killercite web
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*Brad Will , anarchist, activist, and documentary filmmaker who was killed in MexicoOthers
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Ivan Albright , artist
*Bobbi Brown , internationally renowned make-up artist, author
*Craig Baumgarten (1967), producer
* Neal Edelstein, producer ("The Ring", "Mulholland Drive", "The Straight Story ")
*Ari Emanuel , talent agent. Character Ari Gold ofHBO 's "Entourage" is based on Emanuel.
*Anna Halprin (Ann Shuman)(1938), modern dancer
*Stieg Hedlund (1983), video game designer ("Diablo", "Diablo II ", "StarCraft ")
* Mike Kelley (1985), creator and executive producer ("Swingtown "), writer ("The O.C. ", "Jericho")
* Drew Lane, radio personality atWRIF inDetroit, Michigan
* Ian Punnett (1978), radio personality, Coast to Coast AM
* Rear AdmiralRobert D. Reilly Jr ., commander of theMilitary Sealift Command
*Mark Romanek (1977), music video and film director, writer, producer ("One Hour Photo ")
*Walter Sorg (1966), radio personality atWILS inLansing, Michigan
*Nancy Spero , artist,
*David Strassman , performer and ventriloquist
*Charlie Trotter (1977), Chicago chef
*Terence H. Winkless , producer, director, writer
*Ryan Zoghlin (1985), artist
*Edward Zwick (1970), director ("The Last Samurai ", "Glory", "Courage Under Fire ", "The Siege ", "Blood Diamond"), co-creator, writer, producer ("Quarterlife ")References
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